killerog

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Favorite Thing About SEO:

That you can achieve a lot by just having a semtically good website.

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I'm a Escenic (CMS for newspapers) template developer, but I'm more doing all kinds of work from building templates in jsp and java, creating layouts with xhtml, css and javascript, and a bit of a lot more things under which some SEO stuff.
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Rogier Schoenmaker.

Sorry for the late comment, as I'm trying desperately too reduce the amount of items I still have to read in my feedreader (decreased it from 1400+ to 1100+ in the last 3 days ;)).

I, voted for spam and in this case I don't really mean traditional spam, but also spam by SEO optimalization which sometimes makes irrelevant results getting on the top results. That's one of the biggest reasons I switched back too Yahoo as my primary searchengine a few months ago. Of course Yahoo has issues too, like too many hits from the same domain on queries or a lot of results from javadocs when you search for something Java related but in general the results feel more natural to me.

Of course it's logic to optimize your site for search engines, as your rival also does this, but sometimes it feels that optimization has too much domination over quality content.

Great guide this is, I never really read it before but it's really helpfull to me because I was less far then I thought with SEO (58% SEOmoz Quiz) and I've got to use it a lot in this project.

I've got one point though, isn't it "beginners guide" instead of "beginner's guide". Because it's a guide for beginners and not a beginner his guide (If I remember my grammar correctly :)). I was copying the title when I wanted to mail it to a colleague and I felt quite strange typing that. If I'm wrong please forgive me :)

I read the original article of Brian Clark and I totally agreed with him and also with you additional example.

But I also can understand the mistake that's made here. I'm not a native english speaker earlier and I grab to the dictionary a lot (When by little brother hasn't "lend" it, to keep it at hand when he's reading an english book ;)) for words I read on blogs.

When I read Brian Clark's post first I had to think two seconds about some examples too (another great one often mistaken, to vs. too), but how much I can understand the typos I am scared away by them too.

So my advice is - for non-native english speakers or bad english writers - too always keep a dictionary at hand and find some good translation resources on the web like Interglot.

Ps to the SEOmoz admins, you're link popup screen in Firefox is terrible, hardly 10px wide. PLEASE make it resizable as I can't disable JavaScript here as it seems.